ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,352, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to INTER IKEA SYSTEMS B.V. (Netherlands).

"First part, such as a furniture part, comprising a recess, a kit of parts, and an assembled product" was invented by Catharina Erelt (Vaxjo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first part, a kit of parts, and an assembled product, the first part includes two or more recesses being configured to receive a respective associated dowel of a second part, such that the first and second parts become interconnected in order to form an assembled product, such as a furniture, wherein a virtual straight line extending between a respective centre point of a respe...